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Monday, December 12, 2011

Prosecutor to decorate portrait honoring 5-year-old killed by drunk driver

The Valley News

RIVERSIDE - A Riverside County deputy district attorney who successfully prosecuted a repeat DUI offender for killing a 5-year-old girl will affix decorations Monday to a portrait of the child that will be carried in Pasadena's Rose Parade.

Chris Bouffard will put the finishing touches on a "floragraph" -- floral photograph -- depicting Sierra Lynn Heidrich, who died in December 2006.

The floragraph will adorn the 2012 Donate Life Rose Parade float christened "One More Day," highlighting the life-saving benefits of organ and tissue donation.

Sierra's family authorized her organs to be harvested after she was taken off of life support.

On Dec. 10, 2006, the 5-year-old was riding in her aunt's Nissan Sentra, strapped into a booster seat, when then-36-year-old Michelle Lynne Coplen, who was drunk, allowed her pickup to drift into opposing lane on Croydon Street in Lake Elsinore and slam into the Sentra.

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